Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 update: tutorials have been
announced. The committee rated over 300+
talks, and easily 70% of the schedule should go live next week as
well. In practice, then, you should see about 50 talks announced
next week. There’s been great competition: we only have 70 slots
in total, so about 1 in 5 talks get picked — talk about a
competitive ratio.

FOSDEM

FOSDEM was
truly awesome last week. From a Percona standpoint, we had a lot
of excellent booth traffic (being outside of the PostgreSQL room
on Saturday, and not too far out from the MySQL room on Sunday).
We gave away bottle openers — …

Percona
Live Santa Clara 2018 update: tutorials have been picked, and
the schedule/press release should be announced by next week.
We’ve (the committee) rated over 300+ talks, and easily 70% of
the schedule should go live next week as well.

There’s a lot happening for FOSDEM this week — so expect a longer report
of some sort next week.

A friend, Yanwei Zhou, DBA at Qunar in China, gave
an excellent presentation in Chinese on how they use Percona
Toolkit. …

I am completing my preparations for the upcoming FOSDEM talk, and one of last things I wanted to do
in frames of them is a quick review of known bugs and problems in
current (as in MySQL 5.7 GA) implementation of so called "online"
DDL for InnoDB tables.

In my previous post I already shared my view on
another important InnoDB feature, persistent statistics.
Unlike that, I do not really hate online DDL. I just try to avoid
it if possible and use tools like pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost instead. Not because it is not
documented properly (the …

FOSDEM is next weekend and I am talking about Parallel
Replication on Friday, February 2nd at the MySQL Pre-FOSDEM
Day (there might be tickets left in case of cancellation,
attendance is free of charge). During this talk, I will
show benchmark results of MySQL 8.0 parallel replication on
Booking.com real production environments. I thought I could
share a few things before the talk so here it

FOSDEM is
back in town, folks, and as usual, there will there be
a MySQL and Friends Devroom. At this point, we can’t
really remember what came first, was it the annual dinner or the
devroom? Our memories of the past few years are particularly hazy
on that… Can’t imagine why.

Following a great tradition of dining together in style with
members from all over the community, we have rented a by now
familiar private space at ICAB, more
detailed directions below.

A couple of things changed compared to the last couple of years.
The community dinner will take place on Friday night 2
February, following the …

I think the biggest news from last week was from cPanel – if you
haven’t already read the post, please do – on Being a Good Open Source Community Member: Why we
hesitated on MySQL 5.7. cPanel anticipated MariaDB
being the eventual replacement for MySQL, based on movements from
Red Hat, Wikipedia and Google. The advantage focused on
transparency around security disclosure, and the added
features/improvements. Today though, “MySQL now consistently
matches or outpaces MariaDB when it comes to development and
releases, which in turn is increasing the demand on us for
providing those upgraded versions of MySQL by our users.”
And …

The schedule of the next edition of the MySQL
& Friends Devroom is now on-line also on the official
FOSDEM website.

As you can see we by shrinking the last two talks (no break) we
were able to add one extra session. The committee selected the
next one, which mean I will have the honour to present again at
FOSDEM too.

The Percona Live Call For Papers closes on December 22, but why
aren’t you submitting already? Don’t wait till the last minute!
Look at our broad scope as well. Worth noting that the
best prices for tickets are available now
until January 7.

FOSDEM is
happening in Brussels, Belgium (like it has for the past many
years). All I can say is that the schedule is out, and it was
very hard to make a choice! See the …

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